At Women's Learning Studio, we spend most of our time online. To make our lives easier, we decided to choose our top 10 online tools, apps and websites, which we included in this Slideshare. After compiling this list, we looked at all the BEST online tools, which we made available to Women's Learning Studio members.

1. Top Ten Online Tools, Apps and Sites to
Amaze, Amuse and
Make Your Life Easier

2. At Women's Learning
Studio, we spend a
large part of our time
online.
We communicate, collaborate,
create and store information
and use social media. For that
reason, we are very interested
in the BEST online tools…

3. So, we put together the top 10
tools we use and recommend.
We decided to choose our top 10 online tools, apps and websites to
share with you. We looked at the most popular and most
recommended tools, and each of us chose our favorite 20 from a list of
about 100. We did not agree on all of our selections, but it was
interesting to see that all three of us listed these 10.
Without further ado, we present to you OUR top 10
tools, apps and websites to make your online life
easier…

4. Diigo
Diigo is a wonderful bookmarking tool
for online articles, images,
documents, etc. Tags help to find
information once it is bookmarked.
Groups can share and access online
articles and information.
The Studio has a searchable Diigo data base of
1,500+ resources on MOOCs, social learning, and
marketing that we acquired in less than two
years. Doris believes Diigo is magical and
indispensable to organizing and curating items
relevant to us.

5. Hootsuite
Hoot suite is a powerful social media
management dashboard to view, post
and schedule social media content from
a variety of online accounts and RSS
feeds.
Each of us uses Hootsuite to keep up with people and
ideas that relate to the Studio’s operations and future.

6. LinkedIn
LinkedIn is a highly useful professional networking
site, which lets you share posts, ask and answer
questions and participate in online discussion
groups. Some use LinkedIn as a blog tool or assist to
promoting their blog.
Through LinkedIn, we find and re-establish contact with former
colleagues who are still dear to us and bring them back into our lives
and work.

7. Piktochart
Piktochart is a valuable tool to create
infographics with pictures, text, charts and
graphs.
We like the sophisticated templates that remind us a little of
the posters we populated with drawings and data to explain
our science projects in grade school. Yet it still projects
professional design pizzazz to project and inform online.

8. Powerpoint
Powerpoint is a very popular and versatile
presentation software tool that comes with
paid Microsoft bundles or that can be
purchased for a monthly fee. We often use
it to create and export images and designs
for other applications.
Some may say it is over-used, but we think that is because
it IS so valuable.

9. Skype
Skype allows free calls and video
conferences. Upgrades allow more
participants and more functionality.
The three of us are distributed from Maine to
Florida. We seldom see each other in person and use
it to check-in when we are traveling for work or fun
domestically or internationally.

10. Twitter
Twitter is a popular social networking and
micro-blogging service to send and read
text-based messages of up to 140
characters. But that doesn’t begin to
express its value as an always-on
connection tool to learn from others and
to publish curated resources.

11. Wikipedia is a remarkable crowd-sourced
encyclopedia of every topic imaginable. It
is a handy encyclopedia and reference
source that is our frequent go-to for
starting online research. Its
documentation takes us quickly to other
interesting sources.

12. WordPress
Wordpress is a free and very powerful
blog and publishing platform with many
plug-ins for user flexibility. We know its
range of utility firsthand since we are
using its social features to build a
learning network with member
discussions and sharing places on the
Women’s Learning Studio website.

13. YouTube
YouTube is a video website where users upload,
view and share videos. Who doesn’t love
YouTube for entertainment, accessing how-to
videos, and learning?
We use it constantly in our work because we like hearing and
seeing instead of reading so often.

14. If you spend much time
online, you probably already
use most of these ten tools.
If you are not already using them, check them out. We have
found them very valuable.
But THAT is not all…

15. You can see over
200 more tools
After choosing our top 10 tools, we began
to make a list of the very best tools, apps
and online sites available.
We thought about our favorites, searched many sites and reviewed
many applications that were new to us. Some looked so appealing
that we will use them in the future. From that list, we compiled a
new list of over 200 tools, apps and sites for Women’s Learning
Studio members.
Because we believe it is such a great resource, we will continue to
update and revise the list.

16. Even better, many
of them are free!

17. As a member of Women's Learning Studio, you can access the best
200+ Tools, Apps and Sites
to amuse, amaze and make your online life easier.
Many are tools you may not know exist. For example, the cartoon
image of us on slide two was made with AnyMakingPhoto Editor.
If you are a Women’s Learning Studio member, login and click on
the link at the bottom of this page to see those tools.
Click here to register so you can review and return often to use
these valuable apps any time you want online assistance.
(Men are welcome to join also.)

18. Connect with us at
www.WomensLearningStudio.net
info@WomensLearningStudio.net
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